Region 7 Blog

﻿Region 7 HCC Staff host and attend many regional events, meetings, and training and are always looking for resources to share with partners. Here we share information about events we've attended and tools and resources that may be of benefit to you. Please check back frequently for more information!​

It pays to be prepared. Thanks to the internet, we have plenty of emergency preparedness resources at our fingertips. A simple Google search of "Emergency Preparedness" will yield pages upon pages of results. In this post, we've narrowed those result to five federal websites that provide emergency preparedness resources for the healthcare sector.

Are you and your co-workers prepared to react in an active shooter situation? Does your facility have a plan in place? What would you do?

These are important things to think about, but many people do not. "You will react as you have trained", states Darin Lucas, Associate Director, Security, Patrol, and Investigation of Eskenazi Health, in the video below. Your training sets the tone for your response in any type of situation.